Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.

The political economy of struggle was criticised as a British stereotype by Karl Marx and by Leo Tolstoy, who had the character Levin in his novel Anna Karenina voice sharp criticism of the morality of Darwin's views.

The novel has received negative criticism for violence and for the way Card justifies Ender's violence.

He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of " novel " that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional.

On becoming acquainted with Messenger, Helen Reed, who holds the traditional — and seemingly almost old-fashioned — views that consciousness is the business of the humanities, in particular of the novel and of literary criticism ; and that there is and should be a clear-cut Cartesian dualism between mind and body, this Helen Reed is confronted by the new ( or even not-so-new ) trend of considering the mind a mere function of the body.

Beyond the basic twin plots surrounding Pitman and Cochrane, England, England is a novel of ideas — mainly ideas that correspond to the criticism of society voiced by French philosophers of the second half of the 20th century.

In Der Stechlin ( 1899 ), his last completed novel, Fontane adapted the realistic methods and social criticism of contemporary French fiction to the conditions of Prussian life.

In 1835 Gutzkow published a novel, Wally die Zweiflerin (" Wally the Sceptic "), which contained criticism of the institution of marriage and some mildly erotic passages.

There was also a large amount of criticism for the title of the novel, which, several critics complained, makes the book sound as if the main character is a nun.

Even close friends and longtime readers criticized the novel for its perceived lack of morality in its open depiction of sex and drug use, a criticism that indeed remained the primary rebuff of the novel for many years.

Goldfinger received more positive reviews than Fleming's previous novel, Dr. No, which had faced widespread criticism in the British media.

He ceased writing novels following adverse criticism of this last novel.

** Next ( novel ) — genetic research, criticism of patents

Don DeLillo, who rose to literary prominence with the publication of his 1985 novel, White Noise, a work broaching the subjects of death and consumerism and doubling as a piece of comic social criticism, began his writing career in 1971 with Americana.

Ward's most popular novel by far was the religious " novel with a purpose " Robert Elsmere, which portrayed the emotional conflict between the young pastor Elsmere and his wife, whose over-narrow orthodoxy brings her religious faith and their mutual love to a terrible impasse ; but it was the detailed discussion of the " higher criticism " of the day, and its influence on Christian belief, rather than its power as a piece of dramatic fiction, that gave the book its exceptional vogue.

* David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest references Bazin in regards to film and film criticism.

In a novel criticism, artist and teacher Conor Casby placed unflattering nude portraits of Cowen in the National Gallery of Ireland and the gallery of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

The novel explores an unusual connection between molecular genetics and quantum computing, with criticism of some of what it considers the excesses of postmodernism and feminism.

Archbishop Ussher's chronology has in recent years been subject to artistic criticism, including in the play Inherit the Wind ( based on the Scopes Monkey Trial ) and the fantasy novel Good Omens which ironically alleges that " he is off by a quarter of an hour ".

During a short but glittering literary career, Wilde wrote poetry, short stories, criticism and a novel, but his plays probably represent his most enduring legacy.

J. M. Thompson, in his 1914 article in The Hibbert Journal ( a quarterly philosophical review ), used it to describe changes in attitudes and beliefs in the critique of religion: " The raison d ' etre of Post-Modernism is to escape from the double-mindedness of Modernism by being thorough in its criticism by extending it to religion as well as theology, to Catholic feeling as well as to Catholic tradition.

Instead, participants should focus on extending or adding to ideas, reserving criticism for a later ' critical stage ' of the process.

" The field developed a large body of work during the early 1990s, extending across the disciplines of " literary criticism, history, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, popular culture, communication studies, music history, art history, dance history, humor studies, philosophy, linguistics, and folklore.

Nevertheless, with all these qualifications and exceptions, the current dystopian phenomenon remains impressive for its criticism that science and technology, instead of bringing utopia, may well enslave, dehumanize, and even destroy men.

His famous criticism of brother Henry's `` third style '' is surely as subtly, even elegantly, worded an analysis of the latter's intricate air castles as Henry himself could ever have produced.

The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories — including those about philosophy itself — to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.

Context menus have received some criticism from usability analysts when improperly used, as some applications make certain features only available in context menus, which may confuse even experienced users ( especially when the context menus can only be activated in a limited area of the application's client window ).

In Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dennett showed himself even more willing than Dawkins to defend adaptationism in print, devoting an entire chapter to a criticism of the ideas of Gould.

" By the later segments of Kino-Pravda, Vertov was experimenting heavily, looking to abandon what he considered film clichés ( and receiving criticism for it ); his experimentation was even more pronounced and dramatic by the time of Man with a Movie Camera, which was filmed in Ukraine.

Stung by the criticism of his film, Griffith made a new film he had just finished, The Mother and the Law, into one of the strands of an even bigger film with an even bigger theme, Intolerance ( 1916 ).

He believed that human reason ( initiated by criticism and dissent ) would develop, even without help by a divine revelation.

According to Finkelstein, Elie Wiesel characterizes any suggestion that he has profited from the " Holocaust Industry ", or even any criticism at all, as Holocaust denial.

The Constitution was changed to make illegal any criticism, even in Parliament, of the Malaysian monarchy, the special position of Malays in the country, or the status of Malay as the national language.

Support for his leadership was eroded even further by his refusal to sack the Minister for Air Peter Howson in order to defuse the scandal, fuelling criticism from within the party that Holt was " weak " and lacked Menzies ' ruthlessness.

Psychologist Arthur Jensen has rejected the criticism by Gould and also argued that even if g was replaced by a model with several intelligences this would change the situation less than expected.

But even this criticism was not unknown to the logical positivists: Otto Neurath compared science to a boat which we must rebuild on the open sea.

Evaluating Mead's work in Samoa from a positivist stance, Martin Orans ' assessment of the controversy was that Mead did not formulate her research agenda in scientific terms, and that " her work may properly be damned with the harshest scientific criticism of all, that it is ' not even wrong '".

The Victorians, stung by criticism over the £ 1000 stake, argued over just about everything ; the toss, who should bat first, whether different pitches should be used for the different innings and even what the umpires should wear.

A number of U. S. companies exited the Burma market even prior to the imposition of sanctions due to a worsening business climate and mounting criticism from human rights groups, consumers, and shareholders.

However, the fact that this particular formulation assigns numerical values to levels of satisfaction is the source of criticism ( and even ridicule ).

The hoax by Randi raised ethical concerns in the scientific community, eliciting criticism even among skeptical communities such as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), which he helped found.

In December 1991, a new constitution was drafted and subsequently adopted, after a popular referendum, which, however, attracted criticism from international observers who accused the government of manipulating the population and even of outright fraud.

In contrast with Nathan-Turner's attitude that the sonic screwdriver should not be used as a cure-all, the new production team gave it even more functionality than previous versions which has given the series some criticism as it seems to be a deus ex machina, a literary device that is generally avoided.

Up until the emergence of Pop Art, Surrealism can be seen to have been the single most important influence on the sudden growth in American arts, and even in Pop, some of the humor manifested in Surrealism can be found, often turned to a cultural criticism.

Perhaps the most important criticism of this view is that, even granting its success against the argument from evil, it does nothing to undermine an ' argument from the absence of goodness ' which may be pushed instead, and so the response is only superficially successful.

He showed that even if one could never justify a particular claim, one can compare the verisimilitude of two competing claims by criticism to judge which is superior to the other.

Much to the criticism of his peers, he continued this practice decades later, even after he was elected Prime Minister.